Pluralistic: Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust (25 Sep 2024)

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Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust: Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook is alive and well.
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Pluralistic: Margaret Killjoy's "The Sapling Cage" (24 Sep 2024)

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Margaret Killjoy's "The Sapling Cage": Epic fantasy as queer coming-of-age.
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Pluralistic: What the fuck is a PBM? (23 Sep 2024)

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What the fuck is a PBM? Matt Stoller's got you covered (but your health insurer doesn't).
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Pluralistic: Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy (20 Sep 2024)

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Tech monopolists use their market power to invade your privacy: The FTC shows that privacy is a competition issue.
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Pluralistic: Thinking the unthinkable (19 Sep 2024)

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Thinking the unthinkable: At a certain point, we have to admit that the correct amount of radium in your suppository is zero.
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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy" (18 Sep 2024)

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There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy": When "fiduciary duty" means "whatever I wanted to do."
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Pluralistic: Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots' (17 Sep 2024)

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Christopher Brown's 'A Natural History of Empty Lots': A gorgeous, lush tale of the nature bursting through every seam.
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Pluralistic: Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster (16 Sep 2024)

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Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster: The constituency for trusted computing is fracturing.
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Pluralistic: Matt Bors's "Justice Warriors: Vote Harder" (11 Sep 2024)

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Matt Bors's "Justice Warriors: Vote Harder": Mr Gotcha For President!
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Pluralistic: America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees (09 Sep 2024)

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America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees: Incentives matter, especially when it comes to stock buybacks.
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